 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...be a beauty of the highest kind; as illustrated by Mr. Wordsworth himself from the song of Deborah. "At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her...he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down dead." l 1 Judges 5.27, which WW cites in quently beauties of the highest kind". his note to The Thorn (see... | |
 | Joanna Russ - Fiction - 2000 - 224 pages
...urgently into the rug; he win stagger to his feet and fall, he will plunge fountainy to the ground; at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down dead. Jael. Clean and satisfied from head to foot Boss is pumping his life out into the... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 346 pages
...urgently into the rug; he will stagger to his feet and fall, he will plunge fountainy to the ground; at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down dead. [182] As Russ indicates, Jael is pathological — in her way as maddened as Rhys's... | |
 | Gabriel Josipovici - Religion - 1990 - 376 pages
...hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, When she had pierced and stricken through his temples, At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her...he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. (Judg. 5:25-27) So far we have a reiteration of what the narrative has told us, though its rhythmic... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 572 pages
...force the same thing or idea (see Fontanier, p. 332). See also Quillet and Robert (meaning 2). Exx: 'At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her...he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down dead' (Judges 5:27); To dig down deep enough to find the truth, / To penetrate and check, balance and sift'... | |
 | Thaïs E. Morgan - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 218 pages
...victory she had foretold. The second, on the murder of Sisera, declares Jael's supremacy and his fall: "At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her...he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead" (27). And the third, half in sympathy, half gloatingly, renders the anguished voice of his mother:... | |
 | Sheldon Brivic - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 180 pages
...Sisera's mother waiting for him to return, is perhaps the first slow-motion violence shot in literature: "At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her...he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead." This appears weirdly transformed at the end of the Children's Games chapter (II.l), as McHugh points... | |
 | Yopie Prins, Maeera Shreiber - Feminist literary criticism - 1997 - 396 pages
...Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: Arise Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou Son of Aniboam. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her...bowed, he fell; where he bowed there he fell down dead. Why is his Chariot so long in coining? Why tarry the Wheels of his Chariot? (in Wordsworth and Coleridge... | |
 | Alan Dundes - Religion - 1999 - 148 pages
...hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her...bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead (Judg. 5:24-27). That Jael killed Sisera in her tent is not in dispute, but there are significant variations... | |
 | Jeanne Cortiel - Fiction - 1999 - 280 pages
...urgently into the rug; he will stagger to his feet and fall, he will plunge fountainy to the ground; at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down dead. (182) In the Bible, the prophetess Deborah and the killer Jael do act, but they act... | |
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